Civilization 3

by Macsoft

Product Features

• Classic long-term strategy game
• Use combat, science and diplomacy to rule the world
• Watch out for multiple rivals developing nearby
• Includes three new maps and other special features
• For 1 player

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008QW6P
• Item Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: April 9, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,030 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Mac | Edition: Game of the Year

Civilization III: Game Of The Year is a special edition of the unique strategy game, where you've been given control of an ancient empire!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, highly addictive game with few reservations., January 3, 2004

By 

Neil Taylor "NTPix" (South Bend, Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Civilization 3: Game Of The Year Edition (Mac) (CD-ROM)

This is an incredibly absorbing and eerily lifelike game. When I made a deal with England knowing it was only to buy time so that I would attack them I actually felt guilty.

Some answers to the critics here... Boooring obviously never learned how to play. He should try researching and changing to a more productive form of government. Tank loses to spearmen. Actually that's rare but not unheard of in real life, too and he needs to remember that, although it's represented as a single figure each unit represents a squadron and a badly damaged squadron of tanks might well fall to a health squad of spearmen if they're smart enough to get inside their range and swarm them.

There are a lot of improvements over previous Civ's making the game worth buying. Particularly better trade, better graphics, many more diplomacy options, significant civilization style, attribute and strength differences.

Brickbats.
In many ways the port to Mac is REALLY bad carrying over all the Windows quirks and inconsistencies instead of porting it to a true Mac application e.g. writing their own dropdowns, eliminating the Mac menu and creating their own (with options missing) not using real windows, taking over the whole screen etc...

This game is so good that sooner or later you're going to want the upgrades, Conquests and Play the World and the likelyhood is that you won't be able to get them on the Mac.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun and Addicting...sound familar??, June 4, 2005

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Terje Kjobstad "the truth" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Civilization 3: Game Of The Year Edition (Mac) (CD-ROM)

If you liked civ 2, then civ 3 is right up your alley. All the little things that civ 2 lacked, civ 3 makes up for. The first day I bought this game I must have played for 14 hours straight its that addicting, the game actually keeps you from doing or thinking about anything else except the game... The game does not run slow at all, it runs at a speed comparable to civ2 if not a little bit faster, and the A.I. is much smarter and more challenging to contend with. If you remember Colonization and the original civilization this game has all the features you were wishing for years ago. More animation within the gameplay, not too much because that would take away from this classic strategy game, higher level of intricacy within the game engine, the game has become fully mind absorbing, you are constantly desring to improve your nation and the city improvements actually morph throughout different time periods, arial views of cities are much more appealing than we've seen before. But be warned its hard to stop playing once you start. I can't explain it, find out for yourself.

24 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Really Awesome Turn Based Strategy, April 20, 2003

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Civilization 3: Game Of The Year Edition (Mac) (CD-ROM)

This is a really fun game. You get to control an empire, and try and expand your empire. You try and build cities in certain places, where you can get food, gold, etc. Then you try and wipe out other empires and take their cities. It is a really fun strategy game, with really cool people. First you build Settlers, Archers, Spearmen, Workers, then move on to Legionary and Horseman. After that, you start building gunman, then all the way to tanks, and finally stuff like missiles.

One of the really fun things is trading. You get lots of technologs that way, and its really fun ripping people off. For example if someone wants a peace treaty, you can just give them a peace treaty, and make them give you cities, gold, technology, things that make your civillions happy like fur and dye, and other really good stuff.

I highly reccomend playing as Caesar of the Romans, playing on the easiest level (which is still pretty hard) Chieftain, playing on the area with the most land not water, and having your enemys be really bad like the Aztecs and Iraquois, and not the Greeks, Germans, and Russians. This is the best because its the easiest, and when its harder, its less fun, because you get really annoyed because you can't rip people off when you trade, and the other empires will always be taking over your towns a lot more.

To have a good game, you need to start out extremely well. Build a city on your first turn. Then get your worker to irrigate all over the place. Then take your settler, and travel all over the place, until you find agood place with water, and food, and build a city there. Also, when you travel around the land mass, you will find things that look like pots. If you get anyone to go over to them, they will usually give you a technology, but sometimes they will give you a warrior, which suck, but you should use to gaurd a city until you get something better to gaurd it with, and sometimes they will give you gold, and sometimes, the place is desserted.

With your military guys, try and attack guys that are weaker, so your guy will become more skilled, and get more health, so that guy will be harder to beat. Also, don't attack extremely good empires, you will lose. Instead, start war with [*]people, and take over their cities, and use them for your use. Also, when other empires want a peace treaty, rip them off in trading for the peace treaty, and then wait 5 minutes before starting war with them again. Then keep on taking over their cities, until their wiped out, or you keep on ripping them off trading for peace treatys. Let the better empires be until you are really strong. In the mean time, keep on giving them gifts of 10 or 20 gold, if you can.

If your a fan of turn based strategy, get this game. The only annoying things are that

1. Your people can only move once per turn

2. It really pisses you off when your doing really good, and then somes crazy attacks your city and gets it , so you should really start over.

3. It really sucks how if you attack a guy with a spear, and you have a tank, you might even lose!

Overall, its a pretty good game. I would definitely get it.

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